The Code’s importance as a reflection ofBabylonian society is indisputable. Hammurabi’s laws wereestablished to be the “laws of Justice” intended to clarify therights of any “oppressed man.” Mesopotamia society under theHammurabi code was one of strict penalties for criminal offenseswith READ MORE

They (the Sumerians) made the first irrigation system which enabled them to use of the rivers’ flooding; they made the first system of law – called Code Hammurapi; they made the first writing system – called cuneiform; their inventions were: READ MORE